The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-09

There is a great deal of sympathy with
that part of the platform OF the newly
formed American party of California which
deals with the question of immigration
According to our dispatches the American
party is opposed to the admission into this
country of the paupers and criminals of
other countries, and to the importation of
laborers under contract 1t wants the nat
uralization laws repealed and objects to
nonresident aliens owning lands in the
United States or receiving the same by in
heritance.
Within the last few years public senti-
ment with respect to immigrants has been
steadily undergoing change, due largely
TO the fact that Objectionable political ideas,
doctrines and methods of foreign countries
have been transferred to this country. The
great majority of the immigrants adapt
themselves TO their surroundings and quickly
become thrifty and good citizens. They
are satisfied with our laws and institutions.
and aim only to make for themselves COM
Portable homes. There are many, however,
who never become Americans in sentiment,
and who are not only agitators and dis
people of this country TO adopt the crude
and dangerous political doctrines which they
have brought with them. They are An
archists and Socialists who want to Overturn
the existing order of things, but who have
no clear idea of what they want or what OBJ
jects they have in view. Not being permitted
to carry out their programme in their native
land, they seek TO carry it out here, where
they are permitted much greater freedom of
speech and action. They have introduced
dynamite and the boycott, and are ready to
use any other means to bring about CON
dition Of affairs which they pretend to be-
lieve is necessary for their happiness. The
country would be much better off without
them, and public sentiment would sustain
any proper effort to keep them out of the
country.
There is already a law against the impor-
tation of laborers under contract Those
who We're imported before the law went into
effect were very degraded class and utterly
incapable of understanding our institutions
or of proiiting by them. They were i'm
ported by the coal and iron kings of Penn
| sylvania who are the chief support of the
| protective tariff system, and who pretend
that they advocate that system not
so much for their own benefit as
for that of American worlSingmen How
much they cared for American working
men was shown by their course in bringing
the most degraded people of Europe here to
compete with American labor. SO far from
caring for American workingmen they
would force them TO work for just enough
| to keep body and soul together if they could
Ii is question whether il would bo wise
to repeal the naturalization laws. Such a
! thing ought not TO be done unless it becomes
| apparent that the good of the country re-
| quircs it. The most of those who become
naturalized develop into good citizens, and
it would be hardly just TO make the we'll
| disposed suffer because there are those who
abuse their privileges as citizens The ques-
ton of repeating the naturalization laws,
| however, or at least of limiting them to
those who can be safely admitted to citizen
ship, is one that will attract great deal of
attention in the near future.